The
scene opens with a young woman swimming in a blue pool, then widens to
reveal Dexter & Lila (the woman Dexter met in rehab) sharing iced drinks
at a table in what appears to be an upscale café.

She
pushed him to "open up", asking him what's going on inside his
head.

He
tells her they are done.

She
says "You're breaking up with me?"

To
which Dexter says "I don't think I want to answer any more questions."

At
which time, Dexter has a flashback to his childhood, and an interview
with a school psychiatrist, where Dexter (following his father's advise)
answer's the shrink's questions with the exact opposite of what he believes.

He
then gets up and leaves.

Lila
appears to take the break-up calmly, but not longer after, she shows up
at Dexter's police station, insisting
that his breaking up with her was a mistake.

She
tells him that she is angry because she had never given any real thought
to what would happen to their relationship after the case ended, but she
liked it that way, an open future filled with possibilities - and that
he had robbed her of that happy fantasy by assuming their relationship
would end when the case ended.

He
tells her that he worried that the novelty of dating a much older
man would wear off soon, and she would dump him.

During
the lunch, he gets a cell phone call from the office and they have to leave.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A poolside
patio at a seaside hotel - and not in Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. This
was shot poolside at the Hotel Maya, at
700 Queensway Drive,in Long Beach.

It was known as the Coast Long Beach Hotel at the time.
The hotel can be reached either by taking the Long Beach (710) Freeway to it's
south end, or from downtown Long Beach by taking the Queensway Bridge across
the river.

That
hotel is located right on the water, just southeast of the southwest end
of the Queensway Bridge, just north of the
Queen Mary. It has a fine view, across the river, of the Shoreline Park
and the downtown Long Beach skyline.

They
shot several other season 2 scenes at the Hotel Maya, including the scene
where Dexter & Lila go to an expensive
restaurant after dark, a scene where Debra & Lundy stroll &
talk, and a scene that is supposed to be outside the police station.

Just
to the south is a small dock that was used for the dock
scene where Doakes shoots a dark-ops agent on a boat.

And
just the the north are the launch ramps where they filmed the crime scene
on the rocky breakwater.

If
you plan to visit, be warned that the hotel can be rather difficult to
reach. It's basically at the end of the 710 (Long Beach) Freeway, but the
main roads leading on and off that dock offer little access to the hotel.
For that, you have to turn off on a small, winding side road known
as Queensway Drive. Be sure to study a map of the area before you
go

A. This was
easy, and something of an accident. While looking at photos on Flicker,
I came across a collection of shots taken by a tourist who had docked his
boat at the Hotel Maya (then called the Coast Hotel). It so happened that "Dexter" was
filming this pool scene at the time, so the tourist took a lot of photos
of the production area, including the poolside set.